The Best Frosting I've Ever Had

I forgot to put this recipe up that I found a few weeks ago. I have to admit the title of the recipe really set the bar high. Probably too high. It was not the best frosting I've ever had, but it was different than I usually use. It is very weird how you put flour in it. This recipe has been circulating around the internet as something "new" but I think it is actually a very old recipe. Think "whipped" icing and you get a good idea of what it is like. It actually tasted a lot better to me when it had chilled- I put it on a chocolate sheet cake.

Ingredients

• 5 Tablespoons Flour
• 1 cup Milk
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla
• 1 cup Butter
• 1 cup Granulated Sugar (not Powdered Sugar!)

Preparation Instructions

Bake your favorite chocolate cake and let it cool.
In a small saucepan, whisk flour into milk and heat, stirring constantly, until it thickens. You want it to be very thick, thicker than cake mix, more like a brownie mix is. Remove from heat and let it cool to room temperature. (If I’m in a hurry, I place the saucepan over ice in the sink for about 10 minutes or so until the mixture cools.) It must be completely cool before you use it in the next step. Stir in vanilla.
While the mixture is cooling, cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. You don’t want any sugar graininess left. Then add the completely cooled milk/flour/vanilla mixture and beat the living daylights out of it. If it looks separated, you haven’t beaten it enough! Beat it until it all combines and resembles whipped cream.
Spread on cooled cake.